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Rookie RB Sony Michel came up big for the New England Patriots as he delivered in a 41-28 win against the Los Angeles Chargers in the AFC divisional-round playoff game.

Sony Michel rushed for 125 yards and three rushing touchdowns a performance that only three people have accomplished in the last 20 years.

He has now helped the Patriots secure a AFC Championship game against the Kansas City Chiefs.

Sony was on and off in the entire year as the Patriots have circled through a number of running backs to keep them healthy but during the biggest game of the year thus far he has delivered.

Tom Brady has this to say to Sony — “I really love Sony as a person and his commitment to the team. He’s just been a lot of fun to be out there with, made a lot of hard yards. It’s great to see.”

Sony Michel is 31st overall pick became the only player in the last 25 postseasons scoring 100 rushing yards and three rushing touchdowns in the first half of a playoff game. The only other player to score 100 rushing yards and three rushing touchdowns was Saints Alvin Kamara although that was not in the playoffs.

The New Orleans Sainst was down 14-0 but made a historic 11-minute and 29-second drive that fueled a comeback win 14-20 and push them to the NFC title game. The drive took 18 plays, 92 yards the longest in the Saints history and by any team in the last 20 years.

Drew Brees threw two touchdown passes including the go-ahead points to Michael Thomas to secure their win.

Saints guard has this to say — “It was tough. I mean, it was one of the hardest drive I’ve been a part of, Saints guard Larry Warford said of a drive that actually lasted 22 plays and forced the Saints to gain a total of 117 yards because of three offensive penalties and one defensive penalty. I was out of breath getting down there … and everybody is tired. But you smell the end zone and you can’t give it away. You worked too hard for it when we were driving, and we finished it.”

Drew Brees has this to say — “I’m not sure if that’s a record. We went on a 117-yard drive to take the lead in the third quarter and really didn’t look back. That was the turning point the game.”

The historic 18 play drive is below:

Down

Yard line

Play

1st & 10

NO 8

Mark Ingram 1-yard run

2nd & 9

NO 9

Incomplete pass; defensive-holding penalty on Eagles

1st & 10

NO 14

Ingram 4-yard run

2nd & 6

NO 18

Drew Brees 8-yard pass to Ted Ginn Jr.

1st & 10

NO 26

Alvin Kamara 1-yard run

2nd & 9

NO. 27

Brees 11-yard pass to Michael Thomas

1st & 10

NO 28

Brees 6-yard pass to Keith Kirkwood

2nd & 4

NO 44

Kamara 1-yard run

3rd & 3

NO 45

Brees 9-yard pass to Josh Hill

1st & 10

PHI 46

Brees incomplete pass

2nd & 10

PHI 46

46-yard TD pass called back on holding penalty

2nd & 20

NO 44

Brees 20-yard pass to Thomas

1st & 10

PHI 36

Tre’Quan Smith 5-yard run

2nd & 5

PHI 31

Kamara 4-yard run

3rd & 1

PHI 27

Kamara 1-yard run

1st & 10

PHI 26

3-yard pass called back on holding penalty

1st & 20

PHI 36

Brees incomplete pass

2nd & 20

PJI 36

Brees 4-yard pass to Kamara

3rd & 16

PHI 32

Brees 20-yard pass to Thomas

1st & 10

PHI 12

False-start penalty

1st & 15

PHI 17

Kamara 15-yard run

1st & goal

PHI 2

Brees 2-yard pass to Thomas, touchdown

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Wide Receiver star Michael Thomas finished the game with 12 catches for 171 yards and the TD.

The Saints have their hands full against the high offensive output of Los Angeles Rams next week.

Kyrie Irving is angry on a 105-103 loss against the Magic as he is disappointed on the lack of experience of the Celtics.

The Celtics was only down by two points with 2.9 seconds left where Irving was in the backcourt and Gordon Hayward inbounded to Jayson Tatum who shot a jumper that fell off the rim. After that play Kyrie started waving his hand in anger.

Apparently Kyrie didn’t agree with the last play and instead of putting the ball in the hands of Tatum he wanted the inbounds to go to Al Horford who will eventually set up a final play to Kyrie taking the last shot.

In an interview after the game Kyrie said their struggles can be attributed to — “Experience. It’s the best thing I can say is experience, We’re lacking it, and because of that, we have a lot of learning left to do. So we have a lot of ground to make up in that aspect…

I know from the majority of the fact that we’re better than most teams in this league, It’s just going out and proving it every single night and demanding it and actually showing it. It’s not easy to be great.”

Experience needs time and even if you stack your team with veterans it still requires time and experience of playing with each other. The good news is that the Celtics are stocked with a mixture of veteran and young talents.

Hunter Henry tore his ACL during the offseason and have not been able to play in the 2018 season.

The 5th seeded Chargers are facing the 2nd seeded Patriots in the divisional round and according to team sources Hunter Henry had been ready since a week ago but they decided to make sure and have his 2018 debut during the divisional round.

The team feels good where he is physically and could provide a passing option for Philip Rivers with a touchdown threat.